Dough-mixer.



" R. MARCHAND.

DOUGH MIXER. APPLICATION FILED was 5,19%.

920,484. Patented May 4, 1909.

REBECCA )L-HttllAXli, 0t" PITTSBL'RG, ll-INNSYJAIMYLL DOUGILMIXER Specification of Letteis Patent.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application filed June 5, 1908. Serial No. 436,959.

The first of the objects of my invention is the provisimi of an apparatus of the charac llCt' specihed which will thoroughly intermix the ilour and lard or other shortening medium, without the necessity of using the hands in direct contact with the mixture, and which will accomplish such mixing with a minimum expenditure of labor, and within a minimum tune.

A further object of my invention is the 'provision of a device of the character described which will mix the substances referred to, so as to secure a mixture which is extremely light and yet entirely uniform.

The above, as well as such other objects as may lwreinal'ter appear, 1 attain by means of a construction which I have illustrated in preferred form in the accompanying drawings, wnerein igure 1 shows in plan view the blank as it is stamped out of sheet metal, from which the body portion of my device is made;

Figure :1 is a sectional view taken on the line 11- 11 of Figure +1, indicating the formation of the blades or slats, and the angular positioning of the same;

Figure 3 a plan sectional view on the line III-J11 of Figure 2, and

'Figure 4 is a side elevation of the device, rith the handle partbroken and shortened,

- uch side elevation indicating the attachment -f the handle to the body portion.

Referring now more particularly to Figure it will be seen that in carrying out my inention I provide first a piece preferably mmped out of sheet metal in the shape inicated, and marked 5, such sheet metal 'cce being provided with bars or slats 6 and )ertures or spaces 7 preferably of about the .ape indicated in Figure 1. The sheet etal piece has a rim 6' extending entirely ound the outside of the body portion,

1 which rim also strengthens the same and at- 5 t'ords a support for the ends of the slats or lizll'S.

The blank indicated in Figure 1 is next pressed or beat up in cup shape, this being actaunplished partly by the use of corrugations 8, as indicated in Figure 3, and then the side bars of the handle indicated at t) are sccured by means of a couple of rivets If). The gripping portion of the handle 11 is l mounted as shown in Figures 1? and 4, so that the operator can secure a good firm hold to exert the muscular force required to mix the material.

The slats or bars 6 in the body of tlre device are caused to take the angular positions indicated in Figure 2, the 'lirst pair, specifieally indicated by the reference characters 6, being at the greatest angle to the line of the handle, while the second pair, 6", have less angularity, and the third pair marked ti" have still less angularity with respect to the handle portion, whence it follows that the Hour and shortening or other material, as the blades are drawn upward and downward throu 'h it, will, by the angularity ol' the blades b be pressed laterally inward and outward and then caught in turn (after passing through the apertures 7 between the adjacent blades) by the succeeding blades 6" which will press them further laterally, outward or inward, according to the movement of the device, and thus secure a thorough mixture of the entire mass.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what 1 claim as new and. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. A mixing device comprising a body portion having a plurality of angular-1y disposed bars with apertures between said bars, and an operating handle extending longitudinally over the bars and secured to the opposite ends of the body portion, substantially as described.

2. A mixing device comprising in combination. a body portion substantially cup larly disposed bars spaced apart, and a bandle extending over the body portion and secured to the opposite edges thereof, substantially as described.

3. A mixing device comprising in combination, a handle and an attached body portion consisting of a plurality of bars, said bars being oppositely disposed and angularly shaped. and composed of a plurality of anguplacnd with rospovt to said hnndlo, suhsiantiully as described.

4. A mixin; device cmnpi'ising in combination, :1 handle and an mum-had lmdy purtiun cunsisting of a plurality ul' l);1rs, said bars being nppusllfil) disposal and nngularly placed with respect In said hnndlv, the hats next the handle huvlng tho gl'vntcst angular- 1twuh respect theretu.

5. Amixing (lLYHO comprising :1 budy pmi tum and handle, the body portion being of a g bun-(d 01' gratod form dished m (-uppcd, and

pmvidvd with corrugations (m its edf v, -wh- 

